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Children under 15 and adults 65+ per 100 people aged 15–64.

📅 2025📏 dependents per 100 working-age people215 entries
Every dot is one country, placed by its value (dependents per 100 working-age people); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.
1
🇨🇫Central African Republic
103.6
2
🇲🇨Monaco
99.1
3
🇸🇴Somalia
96.7
4
🇨🇩DR Congo
96.2
5
🇳🇪Niger
95.5
6
🇲🇱Mali
92.9
7
🇹🇩Chad
92.6
8
🇦🇴Angola
88.7
9
🇲🇿Mozambique
88.3
10
🇧🇮Burundi
87.0
11
🇲🇷Mauritania
83.9
12
🇹🇿Tanzania
83.1
13
🇺🇬Uganda
82.9
14
🇦🇫Afghanistan
81.8
15
🇧🇯Benin
79.9
16
🇼🇸Samoa
79.0
17
🇬🇳Guinea
78.6
18
🇨🇲Cameroon
78.4
19
🇹🇬Togo
78.3
20
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
78.1
21
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
78.1
22
🇸🇩Sudan
77.3
23
🇳🇬Nigeria
77.3
24
🇾🇪Yemen
77.2
25
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
75.8
26
🇨🇬Congo
75.5
27
🇿🇲Zambia
75.4
28
🇬🇲Gambia
75.2
29
🇲🇼Malawi
74.6
30
🇱🇷Liberia
73.7
31
🇲🇬Madagascar
73.6
32
🇻🇺Vanuatu
73.4
33
🇪🇹Ethiopia
72.6
34
🇪🇷Eritrea
72.0
35
🇹🇴Tonga
71.7
36
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
71.1
37
🇵🇸Palestine
70.8
38
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
70.6
39
🇸🇳Senegal
70.6
40
🇰🇲Comoros
70.4
41
🇯🇵Japan
70.2
42
🇸🇸South Sudan
69.7
43
🇷🇼Rwanda
69.6
44
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
69.3
45
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
69.1
46
🇲🇫Saint Martin
68.7
47
🇵🇰Pakistan
68.4
48
🇳🇦Namibia
67.9
49
🇬🇦Gabon
67.7
50
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
67.3

Highlights

As of 2025, Central African Republic ranks first with 103.6, followed by Monaco (99.1) and Somalia (96.7).

Across 215 countries and territories, values run from 103.6 (Central African Republic) to 20.1 (Qatar), with a median of 55.2.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 9 from Africa and 1 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population), 2025. Unit: dependents per 100 working-age people.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026